# Anti-Feminism **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390 "2015-07-17T06:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 97
**Author:** ![LinusK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/97 "2015-07-18T19:47:43Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > This does not describe most feminists or feminism as far as my understanding. In my understanding, feminism (for most feminists, anyway) really is about advocating that women be treated equally and fairly by law and by society. If feminism was about equality, you’d expect them to be concerned about sentencing disparities between men and women, the occupational death gap, the disparity of arrests and outcomes in domestic violence cases, the difference in outcomes in custody cases, prison rape (of men), the historical disparity of women being exempt from the draft, or the way the media portrays men’s lives as less valuable than women’s. You might even expect them to be outraged at the scene in Titanic, when Leonardo DiCaprio’s character freezes, and sinks to the bottom of the sea, while Kate Winslet floats away on her raft. (Why was it again that she gets the raft?) But you don’t see that. Which leads me to the conclusion that “feminism is about equality” is a useful lie, rather than something that’s actually true about feminism. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390)._